YAMA MATA YAMA II

Born in 1954 in Paris.
1977 graduate of the Fine Art Institute Nicolae Grigorescu, printing department in Bucharest, Romania.

“She prints traces of the body, translates the emotion of a movement, praises the fragility of her subject.
Sylviane Canini is rooted in a classicism whose erudition and elegance is inherently appealing. In her work,
the drawing prays. An unfinished drawing, in suspension. A desire that is yet to arrive. Her figures seem to be
born under our gaze, similar to when we discover a fresco that is barely lit. “I like to hint at things,” she says.
“It allows people to dream and makes the figures universal”. Dreams that are accentuated by natural colours